Ultrasonic liver tissue characterization by feature fusion

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 9389-9397

  Wu, Cheng Chi ^a   Lee, Wen Li ^b   Chen, Yung Chang ^a   Lai, Cheng Hung ^a   Hsieh, Kai Sheng ^c  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b MING CHUAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c KAOHSIUNG VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Feature fusion; Feature selection; Feature vector; Genetic algorithm; Liver; Multiresolution; SGLDM; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; DISCRIMINATIVE FEATURES; ENERGY FEATURE VECTORS; FEATURE FUSION; FEATURE FUSION METHOD; FEATURE SPACE; FEATURE SUBSET; FEATURE VECTORS; FRACTAL FEATURE; GRAY-LEVEL; LIVER IMAGING; LIVER TISSUE; MULTI-RESOLUTIONS; MULTIPLE FEATURES; SGLDM; TWO STAGE; ULTRASONIC IMAGES;

ALGORITHMS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; LIVER; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 84862817357     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2012.02.128     Document Type: Article

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